You might be interested in catching the Turner exhibition at Salisbury District Museum. I went to see it on Bank Holiday Monday, and it was very good. It's mainly sketches from his earlier years, of Salisbury, Fonthill, Stourhead and other places in the south-south-west, including Lyme Regis and Portsmouth, with one or two later pictures and artefacts. Admission is the cost of admission to the museum, a not-cheap £8 with no reductions for senior citizens, and although you get an annual ticket for that that wouldn't be mush use to tourists. But I enjoyed it and thought it worthwhile - nicely put together. The museum is in the cathedral close.

thanks - and if going to Salisbury, a really neat city besides the soaring cathedral be sure to walk out along the river south of town to get some of the famous shots of the cathedral soaring high that Turner and others put on canvas (I believe it was Turner?)

Constable painted Salisbury Cathedral too, and there's a famous view by him from Harnham Mills (where there's now a good restaurant).

There are also some special guided walks revisiting the spots Turner painted in association with the exhibition, Wednesday and Sunday afternoons.

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Thanks for the tip, nonconformist. We are unlikely to be in the neighbourhood this year, but you never know and if we are, we will make a bee-line for the exhibition.